Grant Edwards a écrit : > On 2007-09-18, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Lorenzo Stella wrote: >>[...] >> >>>My question is: how can we call a language "functional" if >>>it's major implementation has a limited stack? Or is my code >>>wrong? >> >>So, which environment do you habitually use that provides an >>*unlimited* stack? > > Perhaps Lorenzo Stella is referring to Python's lack of > tail-recursion optimization? There are languages that > guarantee unlimited tail-recursion with a limited stack. > > That's a typical feature for a function language, right? > And also for some implementations of some purely procedural languages IIRC.
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